BHoP#344 Confessional Christianity and the Baptist Tradition: A Conversation with a Baptist Pastor and Professor

Dr Adam Koontz interviews Pr Joshua Tinkham about the history of the Baptist confessions, Associationalism, and the Baptist understanding of the sacraments.
Pr Joshua Tinkham - Covenant Community Church, Founders Seminary
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Dr Adam Koontz - Redeemer Lutheran Church
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BHoP#343 Pastoral Formation - Part 3

Brian Yamabe talks with Dr Adam Koontz about the scriptural and historical modes of pastoral formation, the changing nature of education in the internet age, and expectations for what will come in the future.
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Dr Adam Koontz - Redeemer Lutheran Church
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BHoP#342 Elites Part 2 - To Be and Not to Seem

Dr Adam Koontz follows up the episode on elites by talking about their purpose, what separates them from the merely rich or influential, and how a democratic society produces leaders focused on appearances.
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BHoP#341 Pastoral Formation - Part 2

Brian Yamabe talks with Dr Adam Koontz about the benefits and drawbacks of different approaches to pastoral formation and what that education needs to achieve.
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BHoP#340 Evil Underneath - The Horror of "Lost Highway"

Dr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk about David Lynch's film Lost Highway, confronting your own sin, and why the film portrays the horror of evil so well.
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BHoP#339 Pastoral Formation - Part 1

Brian Yamabe talks with Dr Adam Koontz about the Koinonia gathering which discussed pastoral formation issues, and the positions on either side of the debate.
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Dr Adam Koontz - Redeemer Lutheran Church
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BHoP#338 Minnesota Church Invasion, Holy Places, and Immigration

Dr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk about the invasion of Cities Church in St Paul, MN, practices to safeguard churchgoers and attitudes towards them, and how people see the doctrine of two kingdoms applied to immigration.
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BHoP#337 Can We Have an Elite?

Dr Adam Koontz talks about why Lutherans have no cultural elites, the societal mechanisms that create an elite, and what elites are supposed to do.
Links:https://firstthings.com/the-problem-with-the-evangelical-elite/https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/the-problem-with-the-evangelical-elitehttps://www.aaronrenn.com/p/comments-on-the-evangelical-elitehttps://americanreformer.org/2025/12/why-are-there-no-evangelical-elites/https://americanreformer.org/2025/12/toward-an-elite-doctrine-of-vocation/
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Dr Adam Koontz - Redeemer Lutheran Church
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BHoP#336 The Transformation from Republic to Principate and Why It Matters

Dr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk about Rome's transition from republic to empire, how the church behaves in relation to government and often mirrors its structure, and why agreeableness is important in a heterogeneous society.
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Brief#34 The Invasion of Panama

Col Willie Grills talk about the US invasion of Panama and compares it to current military actions in Venezuela. 
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Pr. Willie Grills - Zion Lutheran Church
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